- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love Quotes
Quotes on love in its many forms.
Love here isn't only romantic - one quote compares loving a city to loving Paris, another describes the joy of fatherhood, and a third recalls turning sheer terror into genuine enjoyment. For romance-specific reading, try Love Messages.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion of a writer sitting in a library doing research isn't what I want. The research I love doing isn't found in a book. It's what it feels like to rappel down the side of a building; to train with a SWAT team; to hold a human brain in your hands; or to dive for pirate treasure. Those are things I've done to research my stories.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that I love about crime novels is that you can turn the volume all the way up. If I can make somebody blow their subway stop, I win.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Hemingway fan, so in a manner of speaking, I've been fishing with him already. But man, would I love to board Pilar in Key West and head south until we have a day-long battle with a tarpon, haul that bad boy up, then celebrate by telling lies over rum on a Cuban terrace.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make no promises every book will be about Chicago, but it's so inspiring. It's a city of such contradictions. I love to write about it.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love using rice as a flour; I'll grind roasted rice and dip fish in that. It gives a beautiful, crunchy texture.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love cookbooks for completely different reasons. I love 'The Harry's Bar Cookbook' and Marco-Pierre White's 'White Heat' for their feel. For pure learning, Gray Kunz wrote a great cookbook, 'The Elements of Taste', published in 2001. The first time I read Charlie Trotter's, the Chicago chef's first cookbook, I was blown away.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to take a cooking class from Gandhi. Maybe I could teach him how to cook, and he could teach me his message. I wouldn't mind learning how to make couscous from scratch from a North African woman, either.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know whether it's a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first, one believes in love. Then one crosses a border, a border of time. Then that belief, too, is lost.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country - what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since the Dixie Chicks, the female perspective on country radio has been love songs. I love love songs, but we do have more to talk about, so it's nice that other perspectives are coming back.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020